Israeli Defense Minister Makes U-turn Yoav Gallant On Sunday, he asked the cabinet of ministers to cancel the decision to keep the army on the demarcation line between Gaza and Egypt, known as the Philadelphia Corridor, hours later Bodies of six Gaza hostages found.
“The cabinet must meet immediately and reverse the decision made on Thursday,” Gallant said, aware that the permanence of troops on the fracture, recently demanded by the prime minister Netanyahurepresents youThis is not one of the biggest obstacles to reaching a truce with Hamas.
“It is too late for the hostages who They were murdered in cold blood“We must recover those still held by Hamas,” the minister added in a statement.
After learning this Sunday of the deaths of captives Ori Danino, Almog Sarusi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Carmel Gat, Alexander Lobanov and Eden Yerushalmi, whose bodies were found last night in a tunnel in Rafah, south of Gaza, Relatives of the hostages blamed Netanyahu for their tragic outcome.
“This is the direct consequence of not signing an agreement. They were all killed in recent days, after surviving for nearly 11 months. “Abuse, torture and starvation in Hamas captivity. The delay in signing the agreement caused his death and that of many other hostages,” the Hostage Families Forum said in a statement today.
“In recent months, 8 hostages were rescued alive thanks to military operations“, against 105 hostages released during a (truce) agreement in November,” they recalled, calling on Netanyahu to publicly sympathize.
On Thursday evening, eight of Netanyahu’s ministers voted to maintain a continued troop presence in the Philadelphia corridor even in the event of a truce agreement, with only one vote against Gallant and the abstention of the radical Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, who openly expressed his desire to reoccupy the Palestinian enclave.
According to testimonies released at the meeting and cited by local media, Gallant already got angry with Netanyahu on Thursdaywhom he accused of having sentenced the hostages to death.
The Prime Minister argued that Hamas was able to carry out the October 7 attack because Israel failed to control the divisionand said the move would make a truce deal more likely since Hamas would have to give in to the demand.
